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Franz Joseph Gall

Franz Joseph Gall

Naturalist of the Mind, Visionary of the Brain

9780190464622
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Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon, who believed he could assess a persons strengths and weaknesses by measuring cranial bumps, he was, in fact, a serious physician-scientist, who strove to answer timely questions about the mind, brain, and behavior. In many ways a remarkable visionary, his seminal ideas would become tenets of modern behavioralneuroscience. Among other things, he was the first scientist to promote publicly the idea of specialized cortical areas for diverse higher functions, while taking metaphysics out of his new science of mind. Moreover, although he obviously placed too much emphasis on tell-tale skull features (mistakenlybelieving that the cranium faithfully reflects the features of underlying brain areas), he fully understood the strength of convergent operations, conducting neuroanatomical, developmental, cross-species, gender-comparison, and brain-damage studies on both humans and animals in his attempts to unravel the mysteries of brain organization. Rather than looking upon Galls organology as one of sciences great mistakes, this book provides a fresh look at the man and his doctrine. The authors delve into his motives, what was known about the brain during the 1790s, and the cultural demands of his time. Gall is rightfully presented as an early-19th-century biologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and physician with an inquisitive mind and a challenging agenda-namely, how to account for species and individual differences inbehavior. In this well-researched book, readers learn why, starting as a young physician in Vienna and continuing his lifes work in Paris, he chose to study the mind and the brain, why he employed his various methods, why he relied so heavily on cranial features, and why he wrote what he did in his books.Frequently using Galls own words, they show his impact in various domains, including his approach to the insane and criminals, before concluding with his final illness and more lasting legacy.
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OUP USA
88327
9780190464622
9780190464622

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Publication date
2019
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
584
Dimensions (mm)
178 x 254
Weight (g)
1225
  • Preface; 1- Formative Years and Childhood Memories; 2- An Emerging Theory; 3- Physiognomy: Facing the Past; 4- The Brain and its Functions Prior to Gall; 5- The Nature of Soul, or is it Just Nature?; 6- A Man of Skulls, and More; 7: Of Animal Heads and Animal Tales; 8- Skull and Cast Libraries; 9- Hostility in Vienna; 10- Scientific Journey through Germany and Denmark; 11- Detour to Holland, Switzerland, and Back to Germany; 12- Settling in Paris; 13- The Long-Awaited Volumes; 14- Presenting Organologie; 15- The Arts and the Faculties in Concert; 16- New Perspectives on Insanity and Criminality; 17- Cranioscopy in the British Press; 18- Spurzheims Phrenology and Gall in Britain; 19- Controversial Final Years; 20- A Rightful Place in History; ---; Appendix: Names and Birth-Death Dates; References;
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